Richard Heck wrote: > I'll ask again: What is the status of the mingw build? Last I heard, it > built our executables fine and the only issue was with building the > installer.
The mingw build works fine in several flavours: -natively on windows as described in INSTALL.Win32 (uses autotools) - cross-compiling from linux using development/cmake/scripts/xmingw (uses cmake, depends on an older 32bit qt build offered by Peter which is downloaded) - cross compiling from linux using MXE and autotools as described in INSTALL.Win32 (works for 32 and 64 bit) I did not test the first option myself, this was contributed by a user. For both cross-compilations I also tested the resulting executable with wine and could not see any problem (but of course a test on real windows would be good). The biggest difficulty for cross-compilation is to obtain a suitable qt: It needs to be configured for windows, but all the utilities like moc, uic etc need to run on linux. qt does not offer a binary build for cross- compilation, creating it is much work, but fortunately the nice people from http://mxe.cc do that for us and offer the result in an easy to use form. I am pretty sure that a MXE build could be done with cmake very easily as well, it just needs somebody to do it and to document the needed cmake command line. Concerning the installer I have no idea. Running nsis on wine is supposed to be no problem, but from my experiences with the inaccurate and outdated MSVC instructions in INSTALL.Win32 I would not expect that building the installer works out of the box. However, this is something I'll probably try one day, but first I want to have easy and working instructions to build LyX with MSVC. Even if we do not build the official version with MSVC anymore in the future, it really helps if interested people can use MSVC and maybe become contributors. Georg
